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226 books here · 1901–2007

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The House in Paris · Elizabeth Bowen

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Thérèse · François Mauriac

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Mr. Sammler's Planet · Saul Bellow

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Lafcadio's Adventures 1932 · André Gide

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The Grand Babylon Hotel · Arnold Bennett

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After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie · Jean Rhys

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The chip-chip gatherers 1973 · Shiva Naipaul

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We · Евгений Иванович Замятин

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The stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. · F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Three Lives · Gertrude Stein

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man who was Thursday · Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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The ripening seed · Colette

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Details of a sunset and other stories · Vladimir Nabokov

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Siddhartha · Hermann Hesse

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In a German Pension · Katherine Mansfield

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Burmese Days · George Orwell

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The Years · Virginia Woolf

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Scoop · Evelyn Waugh

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The words · Jean-Paul Sartre

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The Nigger of the Narcissus · Joseph Conrad

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Some Reminiscences · Joseph Conrad

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The Man-eater of Malgudi · Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan

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Death of a Salesman · Arthur Miller

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Labyrinths · Jorge Luis Borges

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The Virgin and the Gypsy · D. H. Lawrence

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The Penguin Complete Novels of George Orwell · George Orwell

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The Vivisector 1970 · Patrick White

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A House for Mr. Biswas · V. S. Naipaul

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All My Sons · Arthur Miller

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Caligula and Three Other Plays · Albert Camus

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Enemies · Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Kristin Lavransdatter · Sigrid Undset

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On Forsyte 'Change · John Galsworthy

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The gift · Vladimir Nabokov

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The Master and Margarita · Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

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Three Soldiers 1921 · John Dos Passos

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The collected stories · Isaak Babel

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But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes 1928 · Anita Loos

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A Legacy · Sybille Bedford

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Kristin Lavrandsdatter; 1 · Sigrid Undset

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The Forsyte Saga · John Galsworthy

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Seize the Day · Saul Bellow

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The Pit · Frank Norris

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Women in Love · D. H. Lawrence

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Under Western Eyes · Joseph Conrad

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Studs Lonigan 1935 · James T. Farrell

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The Family Moskat 1950 · Isaac Bashevis Singer

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A fairly honourable defeat 1970 · Iris Murdoch

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The Middle Parts Of Fortune · Frederic Manning

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Children of the albatross 1959 · Anaïs Nin

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Northland Stories · Jack London

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The Custom of the Country · Edith Wharton

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Martin Eden · Jack London

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Gigi · Colette

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Hunger · Knut Hamsun

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My mother's house · Colette

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Orlando · Virginia Woolf

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Le Grand Meaulnes 1913 · Alain-Fournier

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Beau Geste 1925 · Percival Christopher Wren

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The Golden Bough · James George Frazer

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The Enormous Room · E. E. Cummings

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The collected essays, journalism and letters of George Orwell · George Orwell

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Mittee · Daphne Rooke

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The Rainbow · D. H. Lawrence

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The Thief's Journal · Jean Genet

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Nuns and Soldiers 1980 · Iris Murdoch

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Aaron's rod · D. H. Lawrence

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A Life 1930 · Italo Svevo

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The middle parts of fortune · Frederic Manning

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A Clockwork Orange · Anthony Burgess

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The waves · Virginia Woolf

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This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen · Tadeusz Borowski

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The Sea, The Sea · Iris Murdoch

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To a God Unknown 1933 · John Steinbeck

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Between the acts · Virginia Woolf

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The prime of life · Peter Green

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Passing 1929 · Nella Larsen

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Petersburg 1916 · Andrey Bely

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The Fifth Queen · Ford Madox Ford

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Exile's return · Malcolm Cowley

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Jigsaw · Sybille Bedford

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Belledu seigneur 1968 · Albert Cohen

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Caspar Hauser · Jakob Wassermann

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The gentleman from San Francisco and other stories · Иван Алексеевич Бунин

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Youth · Joseph Conrad

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Myra Breckinridge · Gore Vidal

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The Bell · Iris Murdoch

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Angle of Repose · Wallace Stegner

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Apocalypse · D. H. Lawrence

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Dubin's lives 1979 · Bernard Malamud

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Brighton rock · Graham Greene

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The lime twig 1961 · John Hawkes

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Fifth Business · Robertson Davies

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The Ministry of Fear · Graham Greene

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Story of the eye · Georges Bataille

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The confusions of young Torless · Robert Musil

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Speak, Memory · Vladimir Nabokov

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The good soldier · Ford Madox Ford

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Selected short stories · Rabindranath Tagore

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The Voyage Out · Virginia Woolf

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The book of lamentations · Rosario Castellanos

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The Lost Girl · D. H. Lawrence

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The Crucible · Arthur Miller

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Malgudi days · Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan

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The Plumed Serpent · D. H. Lawrence

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Cabbages and Kings 1904 · O. Henry

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The Beautiful and Damned · F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Tortilla Flat 1935 · John Steinbeck

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Twenty Years at Hull-House · Jane Addams

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Black list, section H 1971 · Francis Stuart

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Lark Rise to Candleford 1945 · Flora Thompson

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Wind, Sand and Stars · Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Anecdotes of Destiny 1953 · Isak Dinesen

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Stamboul Train · Graham Greene

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War With the Newts · Karel Čapek

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Collected poems, 1975 · Robert Graves

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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight · Vladimir Nabokov

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The Radetzky March · Joseph Roth

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The Forsyte Saga Volume Three · John Galsworthy

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Pan · Knut Hamsun

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McTeague · Frank Norris

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The Horse's Mouth 1948 · Joyce Cary

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Voss 1957 · Patrick White

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Babbitt · Sinclair Lewis

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Ulysses · James Joyce

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Burning bright 1950 · John Steinbeck

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Maurice · E. M. Forster

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Cup of Gold 1929 · John Steinbeck

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The Old Wives' Tale · Arnold Bennett

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Mr Noon · D. H. Lawrence

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The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti 1928 · Nicola Sacco

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Men at Arms · Evelyn Waugh

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The complete short stories of H.G. Wells. · H. G. Wells

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The Book of Sand 1975 · Jorge Luis Borges

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The End of the Affair · Graham Greene

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Mysteries · Knut Hamsun

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Finnegans Wake · James Joyce

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The Trespasser · D. H. Lawrence

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Seduction Of The Minotaur · Anaïs Nin

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The Pearl · John Steinbeck

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Duluth · Gore Vidal

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Within The Tides · Joseph Conrad

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The life to come, and other stories · E. M. Forster

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To the North · Elizabeth Bowen

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The adventures of Augie March · Saul Bellow

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Messiah · Gore Vidal

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Gunnar's daughter · Sigrid Undset

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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair 1969 · Pablo Neruda

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The Pastures of Heaven 1932 · John Steinbeck

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The Cross · Sigrid Undset

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The Painter of Signs · Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan

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Exile's Return 1934 · Malcolm Cowley

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Kalki · Gore Vidal

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Jacob's Room · Virginia Woolf

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Lost Lady · Willa Cather

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Tarzan of the Apes · Edgar Rice Burroughs

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The Buccaneers · Edith Wharton

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Dubliners · James Joyce

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Travels with my aunt · Graham Greene

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The Loved One · Evelyn Waugh

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The Assassination Bureau, Ltd. · Jack London

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Riders of the Purple Sage · Zane Grey

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A Room Of One's Own · Virginia Woolf

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The Secret Agent · Joseph Conrad

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The Long Valley 1938 · John Steinbeck

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Shosha 1978 · Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Amerika · Franz Kafka

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The Red Pony 1937 · John Steinbeck

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East of Eden 1952 · John Steinbeck

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The quiet American · Graham Greene

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The Age of Innocence · Edith Wharton

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The Four Feathers 1901 · A. E. W. Mason

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The heart is a lonely hunter · Carson McCullers

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The secret garden · Frances Hodgson Burnett

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The Collected Stories 1968 · Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The lost honour of Katharina Blum · Heinrich Böll

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The Rise of David Levinsky 1917 · Abraham Cahan

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The Grapes of Wrath 1939 · John Steinbeck

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The Trial · Franz Kafka

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This Side of Paradise · F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Sweet Thursday 1954 · John Steinbeck

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A Passage to India · E. M. Forster

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The dean's December · Saul Bellow

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The Card · Arnold Bennett

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The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War 1930 · Jaroslav Hašek

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The Immoralist 1930 · André Gide

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Swann's Way · Marcel Proust

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Tender is the Night · F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories · Algernon Blackwood

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Wide Sargasso Sea · Jean Rhys

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A room with a view · E. M. Forster

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Howards End · E. M. Forster

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The Riddle of the Sands · Erskine Childers

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The House Behind the Cedars · Charles Waddell Chesnutt

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Cold Comfort Farm · Stella Gibbons

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The Reef · Edith Wharton

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The Song of the Lark 1915 · Willa Cather

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Call It Sleep · Henry Roth

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My Antonia · Willa Cather

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Black Mischief · Evelyn Waugh

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The Fixer 1966 · Bernard Malamud

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The Go-Between 1953 · L. P. Hartley

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The Club of Queer Trades · Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1925 · Anita Loos

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Summer · Edith Wharton

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Sons and Lovers · D. H. Lawrence

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Appointment in Samarra 1934 · John O'Hara

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In Dubious Battle 1936 · John Steinbeck

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Kim 1901 · Rudyard Kipling

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In Cold Blood · Truman Capote

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If Beale Street could talk · James Baldwin

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The Rescue 1920 · Joseph Conrad

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Of Human Bondage · William Somerset Maugham

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The Return of the Soldier · Rebecca West

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Zazie in the Metro 1959 · Raymond Queneau

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Lady Chatterley's Lover · D. H. Lawrence

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To the Lighthouse · Virginia Woolf

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Night and Day · Virginia Woolf

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The Little Prince · Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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The Stranger · Albert Camus

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Animal Farm · George Orwell

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Flush · Virginia Woolf

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Liza of Lambeth · William Somerset Maugham

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The Marrow of Tradition · Charles Waddell Chesnutt

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A Diversity Of Creatures 1917 · Rudyard Kipling

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Gravity's Rainbow 1973 · Thomas Pynchon